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Family BUPRESTIDJE (?). 

 MESOSTIGMODERA TYPICA, Etli. & Olliff. 



Mesostigmodera typica, Efcheridge and Olliff, Mem. Geol. Surv. N.S.W. 

 Palaeontology, No. 7, Sydney, 1890. 



ELYTRON, 15 mm. long, 4.8 mm. wide. Sculpture is as shown 

 in the three figures by Eth. and Olliff,* but an enlargement of the 

 specimen represented in figure 1 (the interior impression or cast) 

 shows an absence of pits, each tubercle consisting of an annular 

 structure with a central core. The tubercles are about 0.2 mm. 

 in diameter, and separated from one another by a distance a little 

 greater than their diameter. They are arranged in about 17 rows, 

 the tubercles in adjacent rows being generally placed opposite one 

 another, but frequently an intermediate arrangement is to be 

 observed. A double line of tubercles exist in the space between the 

 suture and the sutural line, packed close together and without pits 

 around them. 



TYPE : Specs. S5a and S56 (mould and cast). (Simmonds 

 Coll.) 



OBS. : The drawings mentioned above have been reversed in 

 reproduction, and fig. 1 (the mould) should have shown the 

 external sculpture represented in fig. 3, while fig. 2 (the convex 

 counterpart or cast) should have shown the internal impression. 



It is not possible to determine with certainty the family to 

 which this fossil belongs. The shape and sculpture of the elytron 

 strongly suggest a close relationship with Stigmodera, the well-known 

 Australian genus of Buprestidse. 



Family TENEBRIONID^E. 

 Genus ULOMITES, gen. nov. 



Appears to be closely allied to the recent Australian genus Uloma, 

 with which it agrees very closely in the sculpture and shape of the 

 elytra. 



TYPE : Ulomites Willcoxi, sp. nov. 



ULOMITES WILLCOXI, sp. nov. 

 Plate, 4 fig. 7. 



ELYTRON, 11 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Shape, sides sub-parallel, 

 base round, apex pointed, slightly falcate ; marginal and sutural 

 borders narrow. Sculpture, seven distinct punctate strise, the distance 



* Loe. cit., Plate 2, figs. 1-3. 



